编辑推荐
'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted,
adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's the
freshness and originality of his way of looking at things... a fine
book by a fine man, and one to be read with great enjoyment: a book
of style, sagacity and wit' Sunday Times 'A tissue of brilliantly
recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable
ear' New York Times Review of Books
内容简介
"A Turn in the South" is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul
in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his
encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary
men and women, both black and white, with the insight and
originality we expect from one of our best travel writers.
Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture
and country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously
crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's
the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things ...a
fine book by a fine man, and one to be read with great enjoyment: a
book of style, sagacity and wit' - "Sunday Times". 'A tissue of
brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a
remarkable ear' - "New York Times Review of Books".
作者简介
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of
thirteen works of fiction, including A Bend in the River, The
Mystic Masseur and The Enigma of Arrival, and ten books of
non-fiction including An Area of Darkness and Among the Believers.
He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize,
the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded
the first David Cohen British Literature Award. His latest novel,
Half A Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in
Wiltshire.